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[19:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kr26x6x5#replies
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[19:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[19:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	Get ready consulting. AI is finally starting to gain some traction and that means repeatable jobs will be eliminated. AI 2-3 years ago provided very little return as 80% of the workforce was still required to handle 20% of the requests (eg human labor was still cheaper than automation, just reference IBMs HR experience). AI today has gotten much more focused and efficient THUS repeatable tasks are now being eliminated without th
[19:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	e need for humans to backfill (essentially automation has finally crossed the line and become cheaper than human labor, just look at SW coders)
[19:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://americanbazaaronline.com/2026/05/06/cognizant-eyes-up-to-15000-layoffs-india-set-to-bear-the-brunt-480243/
[19:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	IBM India could easily remove 25k worth of employees, given the remaining 400m still in the 2026 budget for restructuring.
[19:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	Remember its all about costs, and IBMs CFO has executed a two prong strategy over the last 5-7 years.
[19:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	    Eliminate higher cost human labor with lower cost human labor via offshoring
[19:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	    Eliminate lower cost human labor with lower cost AI automation
[19:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[19:39]		-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-americanbazaaronline.com | Cognizant eyes up to 15,000 layoffs, India set to bear the brunt
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[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kr4jq0y8#replies
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[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	" I've been gone from ibm nine years and I've hated ibm all nine of them
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	3 hours ago by Anonymous
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	| 5 reactions (+5/-0) | Reply
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @dq+1kr4jq0y8
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +4 
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	@d4 its not thriving. It has been a downward spiral for sometime leading up to the paying to Globalfoundries to take a bunch of the fab sites. Thats right GF didnt buy the sites from IBM - IBM paid GF to take them. All the Quantum leadership buzz is also hype. Anyone working on it knows. We should place bets on Kashi of when IBM will inevitably give up the lead. But there are no customers or practical uses so this to
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	o will shrivel up after a few years. @cw+1kr4jq0y8 Is right. This in not the IBM of old. This IBM has been coasting for decades on what your comments have pointed out. But their current leadership has milked this dry at this point and are rapidly running out of the ibm reputation supply
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	4 hours ago by Anonymous
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[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @dd+1kr4jq0y8
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +5 
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	To our little Indian intern that keeps posting AI slop - you wonder why we hate Arvind's IBM so much? Because IBM has earned it.
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	When you treat employees right, they do not hate you. IBM is despised by hundreds of thousands of workers in the US alone. Trust me, that was earned.
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	Basic decency matters. There is a reason why corporations have not treated employees like this forever; it comes at a steep cost. When you decide it does not, then what comes around goes around. This kind of hate is karmic.
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	Like the Trump administration, repeated bullying only brings hate and alienates allies. Basic decency pays dividends. IBM has lost all decency under Arvind.
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	4 hours ago by Anonymous
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[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @dc+1kr4jq0y8
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +4 
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	@d5
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	"IBM needs to track people badging out too."
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	Well yer quite the resourceful tool, ain't ya? In that case I'd badge in in the morning but I wouldn't actually go in. Instead, I'd go for coffee, breakfast, who knows, maybe even a massage. Later on I'd RTO (LOL), pretend to be looking for my badge at the door, and tailgate behind the next IBMer badging in, flashing my badge with an, "Ah, here it is." LOL
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	What you really want to do is force all IBMers to wear a body cam when they're "on duty." ROTFLMFAO That'd be quite consistent with IBM's imbecilic authoritarian reputation.
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	5 hours ago by Anonymous
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[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @da+1kr4jq0y8
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +4 
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	@d5 Hi---r would have been proud of you. Also you obviously haven't been working in the corporate world for more than a year. Give it a little longer and you'll start to understand. IBM doesnt care about you at all. They will su-k the life out of you. They will take your lunch, your nights, your weekends if they can, and you will receive nothing in return except an eventual RA. The fact that you're so concerned about other people c
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	offee-badging makes me believe you're just a company shill. Who cares what other people do? They aren't hurting you, and maybe they've found work-life balance - something that the m0r0ns at the top of the IBM food chain dont want for us. Tell your corporate masters that they should be more concerned with the mental health of their employees if they want happy, productive workers. Id-eee-ought.
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	"IBM is a blue tube with a mouth at one end and a shithole at the other. IBM will eat you up and sh-t you out. And in between it will subject you to the most pathetic, inefficient, id--tic, and unbelievable bullsh-t ever seen in the history of the universe.
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	6 hours ago by Anonymous
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[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @cz+1kr4jq0y8
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +6 
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	IBM is no longer prestigious place to work
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	7 hours ago by Anonymous
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[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @cw+1kr4jq0y8
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +5 
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	I worked for a different company for 13 years and thought it was time for a fresh start. I joined IBM
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	five years ago, but in many ways it turned out to be the same job just with fewer friends and enemies.
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	Looking back, leaving behind all those stock options to join IBM was probably a mistake. And leaving IBM would likely be another mistake unless I make a real career change rather than just another company change.
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	If you switch from soccer to golf, you need to change the club. If you no longer enjoy soccer, it does not help to play soccer in a different town.
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	It seems obvious in hindsight, though it was not obvious to me at the time.
[19:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
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[19:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kr24aeev#replies
[19:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[19:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	They are called Client Zero because they deliver zero value to clients.
[19:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	Nuff said.
[19:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	38 minutes ago by Anonymous
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[19:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	 -1 
[19:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	@hn
[19:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	Why must hate and venom be spewed here like thick hot lava?
[19:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	59 minutes ago by Anonymous
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[19:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +3 
[19:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	@OP hopefully AK put that as a Growth Opportunity for C- "I hate humans" HR
[19:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	4 hours ago by Anonymous
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[19:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	 0 
[19:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	@d8 and don't forget to note his current cosplay use of hoodies which went out of techbro style years ago. Did he lock himself in a 2015 time capsule along with his ideas and resistance to anything innovative....?
[19:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	4 hours ago by Anonymous
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[19:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +5 
[19:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	@f6 Why does it need to stop ? Because you say so ?
[19:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
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